Ok, any chance for a summary with roles on who's going to do what, and
in what timeframe ?

Although limited in spare time (aren't we all), I'm definitely willing
to work on this (and I assume Musachy as well), but I would appreciate
directions or a concrete plan.

Shoot.

Phil

On 2/14/07, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/13/07, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yup. Spring uses Docbook. That's what I am going to try: single html
> page (everything), multiple html pages, and PDF.

For DocBook under Windows, I've been having good luck with

* TextPad
* xlstproc
* Apache FOP

The trick is to use xmllint frequently to catch any formatting oversights.

TextPad has plugins for DocBook syntax. The TextPad cliplibraries work
surprisingly well for XML formatting, and give you more control over
the source. An issue with the IDEs is that they tend to format
everything as one long line, making repository change logs useless.
(And repository change logs is one very good reason to use DocBook!)

Besides supporting a variety of output formats, another key benefit
for geeks is that the code examples can be stored as external files,
so you can continue to edit and test them with programming tools, or
maybe even suck them in from the distribution, snippet style.

DocBook ReadMeFirst

 * TextPad DocBook - http://www.scottnesbitt.net/techdocs/docbook_textpad.html
 * CodeProject DocBook - http://www.codeproject.com/winhelp/docbook_howto.asp
 * DocBook XSL - http://www.sagehill.net/book-description.html
 * DocBook Guide -
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/docbook.html

DocBook Downloads

 * DocBook XLS - http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/
 * DocBook DTD - http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/
 * DTD Character Entities -
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xmlcharent/index.shtml
 * TextPad - http://www.textpad.com/
 * SDocBook clip library - http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/cliplibs.html
 * DocBook syntax - http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/syna2g.html
 * xsltproc - http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/ - libxml, libxslt,
zlib, and iconv
   ** libxml2-2.6.27.win32    (includes xmllint)
   ** libxslt-1.1.17.win32
   ** zlib-1.2.3.win32
   ** iconv-1.9.2.win32.zip
 * Apache FOP - http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/fop
   ** Java Advanced Imaging (JAI)
https://jai.dev.java.net/binary-builds.html#Release_builds
   ** Objects for Formatting Objects http://sourceforge.net/projects/offo/

If there's ever a week when I'm not rolling a Struts 2 release, I
might blog about DocBook under Windows. :)

-- HTH, Ted.
* http://www.husted.com/struts/

... or, maybe when wrestling season is over and I get my Saturdays
back. My son just won the Sectional wrestling championship hereabouts,
which puts him one step away from the NYS tournament.

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